The Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation Campaign Priority

Enhanced programs and real-world opportunities will elevate a campus culture of collaboration and innovation within the field of entrepreneurship education.

The Center For Entrepreneurship & Innovation

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Raising The Arc Of Innovation

The Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation seeks to raise the arc of innovation across campus and elevate the discussion of what matters—values, judgment and character within the field of entrepreneurship education.

Providing a distinct foundation for students to become influential global leaders and drivers of social change, the Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation pushes the boundaries of entrepreneurial issues. Doing so ensures that students not only learn, but also know how to use and implement what matters most in both business and service.

Endowed funds will support strategic investments that will enable students to gain knowledge and awareness through:

opportunities for competitions on and off campus

enrichment programs such as the visionary entrepreneur speaker series

student venturing, mentoring, and scholarly research and education

Setting The Stage

The Center encourages students to develop creative ingenuity while learning the fundamentals of free-market economic theory. Students are challenged in multi-disciplined scenarios, working entrepreneurially across the curriculum. Business leaders offer vital advice and knowledge as lecturers, mentors and advisers.

The Center encompasses the building blocks of a successful and ethical entrepreneurial mindset:

Importance of a free and competitive market

Creating value for the customer using ethical business tools

Importance of team leadership

Developing strong business ethics

Incorporating Christian perspectives into organizations

Preparing To Compete

To foster entrepreneurship campus-wide, cooperative relationships have been developed across the academic departments and disciplines of engineering, computer science, physics and communication studies by offering a 24-credit-hour minor for non-business students.

The Center has also partnered with our competitively ranked Departments of Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering to offer a course on high technology ventures. Students experience what it takes to bring a product or prototype from concept to market for a local company. The vision is to expand these efforts through the development of an Institute for Technology Ventures.

Inventing Tomorrow

Endowed funds for the Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation will enable the strategic investment in academics, competitions and enrichment programs that sustain and promote a culture of versatility and creativity across the College. Through expanded interdisciplinary collaborations, the Center will continue to raises awareness among all Grove City students to the possibility of entrepreneurial activity as a choice at some point in their careers.

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Over the last five years, Grove City College students have earned a first place and three second place awards at the prestigious Tepper Venture Challenge. The annual business plan competition held at Carnegie Mellon University is judged by a board of venture capitalists and features many other top academic institutions from around the country.

The competition allows students to compete as entrepreneurs pitching business concepts to potential investors. Teams are provided 10 minutes to sell their vision to judges and 10 minutes to answer questions.